[vbox-dev] my patches for VirtualBox-4.2.0 on Fedora 17+

Michael Thayer michael.thayer at oracle.com
Mon Dec 3 16:38:43 GMT 2012


Hello Sérgio,

On 02/12/12 23:46, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> Hi , I had used VBOX_USE_SYSTEM_XORG_HEADERS on rpm for rpmfusion and
> worked very well, I had drop one patch but others two still up ...
> http://cvs.rpmfusion.org/viewvc/rpms/VirtualBox/devel/VirtualBox-4.2.0-VBoxGuestLib.patch?revision=1.1&root=free&view=markup
I wonder whether you really need this patch, given that you are only 
building X.Org drivers and not XFree86 ones?

> http://cvs.rpmfusion.org/viewvc/rpms/VirtualBox/devel/VirtualBox-4.2.0-mesa.patch?revision=1.3&root=free&view=markup
I will take a look at this.

> I wonder, If you want permit unbundle some other sources like :
> src/libs/liblzf-3.4/
>
> the :
> src/libs/boost-1.37.0/
> src/libs/libxml2-2.6.31/
> src/libs/libpng-1.2.8/
> src/libs/zlib-1.2.6/
>
> I saw that is just used on system that don't have it, and don't used on
> Linux systems.
Not quite sure what you mean here.  Does it really matter if you are not 
building that code anyway?

Regards,

Michael




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